oh thanks for bringing up my being rooked like a noob
I was just being greedy and didn't expect a flying mammoth.
and i had bought that stupid PD just w/out thinking. I would say that the "oh no, my one useless follower is dead, I must flee" is the worst example of the unthematic nature of the current rout system. or why all rout if one cheesy commander in an all commander army dies.
Now, if the pretender were to die on the battlefield, I sure could see a general rout...